Improvement in baling-presses



W. P. CRAIG.

BALING PRESS.

No. 48,523.. Patented July 4., 1865.

UNITED STATES PATENT 'Ormea WAI-DO P. CRAIG, OF'MILTON, KENTUCKY.`

IMPROVEMENT IN BALlNG-PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,528, dated July 4, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALDo P. CRAIG, of Milton,Trimble county, and State et' Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ealing-Presses; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification. i Myimprovement relates, in part, toa provision whereby the advantages of tramping are secured in a portable baling-press, and also, in part, to an `arrangement which enables the hooping of the bale to be effected outside of the press.

lFigure lis a side elevation of my machine in condition for tramping. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the same represented in the' act ot' pressing. Fig. 3 shows the bale after being pressed and before it has been hooped. Fig. 4 is a view oi' the clamp and tiebur detached. i

- A represents a horizontal bed, freni which rises a vertical frame, B, whose transom() contains a journal-bearing for the upper end ot' the screw D. The screw D has also a bearing in the fra-me A, and has attached to its lower extremity the sweep O. 'lhe bed A supports on friction-rollers a a' a." the carriage E, having two stoutabutments, E' E", to one ofwhich, El', the outer arm, F', of the toggle F F' is hinged, the inner arm, F, of said toggle being hinged to the follower G, which runs on the friction-rollers g g.

I render my press available for tramping by means of a device which I call the tumblingbox, and which is arranged and operatedas follows: The vertical sides of the vcarriage E contain two horizontal slots, e, to receive the tru-unions It ot the tu'mblingbox H, which box, when liberated so as to revolve on its trunfnions, assumes the vertical position, as

-shownin Fig. 1. The slots c permit the strain to heil-brought to bear against `the abutment E and- -relieve the trunnions h of any strain whatever during the time the pressing is being eected. rIhe tumbling-box H having been vallowed to assume the vertical position, a slab, K, is deposited in its lower end, and the door L (of which there is one on each side of the tum bling-box H) being closed, the charging andtramping is commenced atthe open endl H' of the tumbling-box. The external faces of both of the slabs K K' are grooved at J to receive the rectangular clamp-bars M M', which, being inserted when the hay has become sufficiently compressed and their ends secured from separation by the tie-bars N N', enable the removal of the bale, Before the commencement of the pressing the upper and outer sla-b, K', is inserted, so that the bale is confined on opposite sides by slabs-corresponding in area to the length and breadth of the bale, which slabs,

`intervening between the clamp-bars and the hay, confine the latter to its proper shape and dimensions forhooping. Grooveskintheinner faces oi' the slabs K K enable the insertion ofthe -hoops after the removal of the clamped hay from the press. In the act of" pressing the bottom (now inner end) of` the tumblingbox l1 bears rmlyagainst the abutment E' of the carriage, and the pressing is effected by the simultaneous approach ot the abutment E and follower G.

P is a floor or platform on which the press stands, and the sweep O may either revolve `hooping bales outside the press, I claim the combination of the U-formed clamp-irons M M', tie-bars N N', and groeved clamp-boards or slabs K K', when constructed and employed as specified.

In testimony'r of which invention I hereunto set my'hand. 4

W. P. CRAIG. Witnesses GEO. E. KNIGHT,

J AMES H. LAYMAN. 

